The AARP noted a survey that ranked South Dakota as the third best state to retire in. The South Dakota Retirement System (SDRS), managed by the South Dakota Investment Council (SDIC), ended fiscal 2017 on June 30 with the 22nd consecutive year of being fully funded. For the 20 years ending with fiscal 2017, SDRS saw a remarkable annualized return of 8.1%, topping the 7.2% return of the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index over that period, according to a calculator on DQYDJ.com, and that’s with reinvesting dividends in the latter.

In December 2017, US Congress passed legislation that would allow American multinationals to repatriate their accumulated offshore profits at a maximum tax rate of 15.5% as opposed to 35% under the previous tax law. American multinational companies such as eBay, Alphabet (GOOGL), Facebook (FB), and Microsoft (MSFT) are expected to take advantage of the reduced tax rate to bring their accumulated foreign earnings back home. In light of the US tax reform, eBay says its aim is to preserve financial flexibility so as to have enough resources to execute on its strategies and drive long-term value creation.

New Delhi, March 19 (IANS) As more and more businesses strive to embrace Cloud in India, Microsoft, with its vast partner network, is in a unique place, offering a complete Cloud platform as well as productivity and business applications, a top global executive has stressed. For Gavriella Schuster, Corporate Vice President, One Commercial Partner Worldwide, Microsoft Corporation, the 'Intelligent Cloud' and 'Intelligent Edge' opportunities in India are pegged at $107 billion.

A senior executive said Microsoft Corp thoroughly investigates issues raised by women in the workplace and fired about 20 employees last year over complaints of sexual harassment as the company seeks to counter claims that it treats female workers unfairly. In an email to employees publicly released late on Thursday, Microsoft Chief People Officer Kathleen Hogan said Microsoft had 83 harassment complaints in 2017 out of a U.S.-based workforce of over 65,000 employees. Microsoft denies it has ever had such a policy.

The analysts collectively follow shares of Microsoft (MSFT), Bandwidth (BAND), Salesforce (CRM), Nuance Communications (NUAN), Five9 (FIVN), and Twilio (TWLO). After visiting the Enterprise Connect conference that took place this week in Orland, Florida, the analysts came away convinced of a big movement in the direction of teams happening in software: There are waves of change happening across Enterprise communications – it spans the way that employees communicate and collaborate, how organizations engage in and manage the customer experience, how data is used to create intelligent and improved user experiences, and through the tools that enable the adoption and integration of best of breed technologies.

Software giant Microsoft (MSFT) announced on March 14, 2018, that it plans to open its first data center in the Middle East. Abu Dhabi and Dubai will host Microsoft’s Azure, Office 365, and Dynamics 365 services in 2019. The Middle East was relatively late in adopting cloud-computing technology, meaning that there’s a lot of scope for growth in the region, which Microsoft wants to take advantage of.

LinkedIn, which Microsoft Corp. bought for $27 billion in 2016, is rolling out features meant to get users visiting more, as the professional social network prepares to infuse user data into Microsoft’s ...

Last month, as part of its push to drive cross-border trade on its platforms, JD.com (JD) opened a regional headquarters for Australia and New Zealand in Melbourne, Australia. The move for a regional office in Australia came at a time when JD was seeing strong demand for Australian and New Zealand products on its e-commerce sites. China’s expanding middle-class population is driving demand for high-quality imported products, and JD and its rival Alibaba (BABA) are making efforts to meet this demand.